By
noon on Saturday, National media outlets were still not reporting
very much, and radio reporters were all asking what type of debris
had been found. I could only imagine how badly the World would
want to see something, anything. I felt I had information
to share, which is why I posted this page. The first images
were posted about 1:00 PM February 1st, a few hours after the tragedy.
Newer images appear at the top of the page.

New
Photos - Debris found Friday 2/28/03

These
6 images are of this piece. The first photo is a good example
of how dense some of the woods are. Many areas are much thicker
than this, almost impossible to walk through. NASA recently
stated only 10% of Columbia has been recovered. This 290 acre
tract 7 miles East of Nacogdoches yielded 4 items. Click
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New
Photos - Tuesday 2/11/03

The
three pictures above are of what appears to be a red scarf
in a tree found by my Father. He said it was a sheer, see-through
material.

Tuesday
2/11/03 - The 15 images below are of 11 fragments all in the yard
of one house.

The
neighborhood

The
house

Debris
on the roof

The
backyard (arrows indicate debris)

Computer
chipSPERRY

Back
of SPERRY chip

Small
electrical diode of some type, the size of my thumbnail.

Tile
chips and fragments

This
piece is curved, like part of a ring of some type.

Close-up
of curved piece

Strap
of some type

Pictures
from here down were added between 2/1/03 and 2/7/03

Here
are some fragments I turned in Friday 2/7. Click
image to enlarge...

This
is a photo of the Official GPS Debris Map on the wallat one
of the main collection centers. It is dated February 2, 2003

My
Account: 8:04 AM - I was awakened by a large BOOM followed
by a second smaller BOOM that was followed by an extended rumble
& roar that shook our house for at least 20-30 seconds,
but it felt like a minute or more. The sonic boom and the
rumble that followed were amazing. We've
heard sonic booms before, but this one was MUCH louder , and the rumble that
followed was like a major thunder rumble x 50. Loud, but very low pitched,
guttural, if that makes any sense. Tremendously forceful. Some
people I've talked to thought a gas well
near their home may have blown up. Others thought a train may have jumped the
track. It was like a freight train was running through the front
yard.

I joined my wife &
kids in the living room while the house was still shaking.
One of my frightened girls asked me "What was that? Is
it an earthquake?". Even the dogs were scared & whining.
I told my wife it sounded like a sonic boom. I thought
an Air force jet must have been in a hurry to get somewhere. We
went outside and saw a smoke trail over our house, extending East
to West. It looked a little odd, unlike a regular vapor trail.
I thought it might have been a meteor, but was fairly certain
it was an Air force jet. I had forgotten the shuttle was landing
and I didn't know of anything else that could have created a sonic
boom.

My Mom called about 10 minutes later
and
told us what had happened. We turned on CNN, but they were
not reporting anything
in our area yet, but we knew they would be. We got in the car and drove East, trying to
follow the smoke trail that had dissipated. The smoke had
seemed to be relatively low, and I thought the main crash site might
be within a few miles of our home. We drove about 20 miles
before stopping at
a convenience store. We met a couple that had been in Mansfield
Louisiana and had seen it in the sky, describing what they saw as sparklers
like kids play with. With this information, we returned to Nacogdoches and began
finding the debris you see above. Most all the pieces were being
watched or guarded by private citizens and National Guardsmen.

I
joined in the search Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Friday. There
is just so much land to cover and such small pieces to find. I
personally have helped cover several hundred acres of private land.
It's strange. A very large area of 100 plus acres may contain
nothing, yet a small area of 5 acres or so may have 3 dozen pieces.
I believe we will be finding fragments for years to come.